“Rumour whose joy it is to embroider the truth with falsehood and grows by her lies to gigantic proportions from tiny beginnings”
― Metamorphoses
― Metamorphoses
“When the gods intend to make a man pay for his crimes, they generally allow him to enjoy moments of success and a long period of impunity, so that he may feel his reverse of fortune, when it eventually comes, all the more keenly.”
― The Conquest of Gaul
― The Conquest of Gaul
“How do trite things get to be trite? why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?”
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“Party-line entertainment-critics always complained that the wraith's entertainments' public area scenes were always incredibly dull and self-conscious and irritating, that they could never hear the rally meaningful central narrative conversations for all the unfiltered babble of the peripheral crowd, which they assumed the babble was some self-conscious viewer-hostile heavy-art directorial pose, instead of radical realism.”
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